The former acting head of the Social Security Administration has delivered a blistering account of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), accusing its officials of arriving with little understanding of how the agency worked while pushing rapid cuts that, he says, risked disrupting benefits for millions of Americans.
Leland Dudek, who served as acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA) until May 2026, made the remarks during approximately 15 hours of interviews with investigative newsroom ProPublica. His account offers one of the most detailed insider descriptions yet of DOGE's efforts to reshape one of the federal government's largest and most complex agencies.
